Challenge students, they are smart & want to learn
Words Activity
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Yes
Pardon?
How
Is
Apartment
No
Hey
Sleepy
Much
Nice
Love
Cool
Fun
Short
Difficult
Please
Maybe
It
School
This
Kerfuffle
Band
You
Class
Brave
Our conversation was about summer and the beginning of the school year. I found this scenario/exercice to be difficult. It was like when I traveled to Italy and only knew five words/phrases in Italian. I felt so limited in the conversation. At first, I picked words that a person needs to be able to say (yes/no/love/please) in order to answer basic questions. Kerfuffle is just a fun word that I like. As we added words, my partner and I tried to pick more words to add to the conversation. I realized that we needed to add more verbs rather than the nouns and adjectives we had.
Takeaways from class discussion:
- Thinking about ESL/ELL students (language minority)
- How much we take language for granted
- Students may not have/ be exposed to school language
- Words have power
- Language changes with Technology
Words Activity
Our conversation was about summer and the beginning of the school year. I found this scenario/exercice to be difficult. It was like when I traveled to Italy and only knew five words/phrases in Italian. I felt so limited in the conversation. At first, I picked words that a person needs to be able to say (yes/no/love/please) in order to answer basic questions. Kerfuffle is just a fun word that I like. As we added words, my partner and I tried to pick more words to add to the conversation. I realized that we needed to add more verbs rather than the nouns and adjectives we had.
Takeaways from class discussion:
- Thinking about ESL/ELL students (language minority)
- How much we take language for granted
- Students may not have/ be exposed to school language
- Words have power
- Language changes with Technology